Hanoian volunteers lend a hand to needy kids

The main thrust of the organizations is to organize literacy classes for underprivileged children in Hanoi. And admirably enough, those young people do not balk at any difficulties facing them as long as they can do something to help.

Notably, all members are committed to their groups voluntarily without any financial interests or incentives.

Every Monday morning, Nguyen Duy Vuong, a Hanoi Banking Institute student, along with his friend, Vu Phuong Thao from the University of Natural Sciences, rides 8km to teach children living near the Hong River.

Catching a glimpse of Vuong and Thao, all the children immediately flock to greet them, creating an intimate and friendly atmosphere between the students and the kids.

Located in an immense and isolated bank of the river, called “Giua” Bank, those children are very vulnerable to common diseases such as colds and headaches among other ailments.

Therefore, besides the task of eliminating illiteracy for those children, volunteers are also responsible for distributing medicines to them.

Bo De pagoda in Gia Lam district is another place where orphanage children are looking forward to the volunteers’ presence everyday.

Children living there suffered different sad fates, congregating at the pagoda to find a shelter.

Nguyen Thu Trang and Nguyen Trong Dinh, both students of Hanoi Polytechnique University, have had a strong attachment to the illiteracy elimination class held in the pagoda from the early days.

It is their lessons bearing great hallmarks of humanity that have gradually helped the children reintegrate to society with fresher attitudes and optimism.

In addition, another group including 60 voluntary students from Foreign Languages Universities chooses Rehabilitation Centers to support blind people there, group leader Phuong Anh said proudly.

Group members are tasked with teaching, recording cassettes, reading books for the blind and their children.

“By helping unfortunate people, we have realized that we are leading much happier lives than them. It is those underprivileged and innocent children that badly need compensations from life for what they have suffered, and we are trying to contribute just a little to that”, a volunteer said.